Dana Milbank, Washington Post: Millions of would-be voters didn't participate because of obstacles designed to discourage them. The hurdles were, thanks to a 2013 Supreme Court ruling invalidating key parts of the Voting Rights Act, largely legal. So let's not get distracted by [Donald] Trump's fantastic claims of millions of illegal votes, nor by [Hillary] Clinton's search for a voting-system cyberattack that even the computer scientist urging the recount says has "probably not" occurred. Focus instead on the scandal that really is rigging American democracy.

In the short run, this makes tactical sense for Republicans. Democratic-leaning minority voters -- African Americans, Asian Americans and particularly Latinos -- are forecast to grow to a majority of the voting-eligible population at mid-century, from 31 percent today. By suppressing this vote, the effect of the demographic change can be delayed.

The Trump administration seems to be fine with holding back the tide. The man picked to be attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has opposed even legal immigration. And, according to a report this week by Scott Shane of the New York Times, Stephen K. Bannon, Trump's pick to be the top White House strategist, once mused to a co-worker that restricting voting rights of African Americans might not be "such a bad thing."